Big Blonde and Other Stories
by Dorothy Parker
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Set in the sophisticated 1920s, this is a sad & affecting story of a fading blonde whose dreams of "a nice home" slip out of her reach. Film star Lauren Bacall gives this & several other excellent Parker stories a definitive readingTags
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Todo mundo sabe que a Dorothy Parker é a rainha dos one liners, mas ela se segura nos contos? Não só se segura como são impecáveis, não são apenas espirituosos, como também de uma passivo-agressividade bem nova-iorquina e em alguns pontos beiram a tragédia pela via da tragicomédia. Um sucesso.
Cineastas que recomendo para quem gosta de Dorothy Parker: Whit Stillman e Woody Allen, do próprio coração de Nova York, mas a diferença mais gritante é que Parker adota sempre o ponto de vista das mulheres, o que nem sempre acontece com esses cineastas.
Cineastas que recomendo para quem gosta de Dorothy Parker: Whit Stillman e Woody Allen, do próprio coração de Nova York, mas a diferença mais gritante é que Parker adota sempre o ponto de vista das mulheres, o que nem sempre acontece com esses cineastas.
I adore Dorothy Parker. And while in general I prefer her poetry to her short stories, the short stories are still very good. And this is a perfect short and sweet introduction to her stories.
Definitely a personal point of view for her time, Parker was way ahead of her contemporaries.
Three brilliant tales by a master storyteller
Jun 30, 2022Spanish
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Poet and short story writer Dorothy Parker was born in New Jersey on August 22, 1893. When she was 5, her mother died and her father, a clothes salesman, remarried. Parker had a great antipathy toward her stepmother and refused to speak to her. She attended parochial school and Miss Dana's school in Morristown, New Jersey, for a brief time before show more dropping out at age 14. A voracious reader, she decided to pursue a career in literature. She began her career by writing verse as well as captions for a fashion magazine. During the years of her greatest fame, Dorothy Parker was known primarily as a writer of light verse, an essential member of the Algonquin Round Table, and a caustic and witty critic of literature and society. She is remembered now as an almost legendary figure of the 1920s and 1930s. Her reviews and staff contributions to three of the most sophisticated magazines of this century, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, and Esquire, were notable for their put-downs. For all her highbrow wit, however, Dorothy Parker was liberal, even radical, in her political views, and the hard veneer of brittle toughness that she showed to the world was often a shield for frustrated idealism and soft sensibilities. The best of her fiction is marked by a balance of ironic detachment and sympathetic compassion, as in "Big Blonde," which won the O. Henry Award for 1929 and is still her best-remembered and most frequently anthologized story. The best of Dorothy Parker is readily and compactly accessible in The Portable Dorothy Parker. Her own selection of stories and verse for the original edition of that compilation, published in 1944, remains intact in the revised edition, but included also are additional stories, reviews, and articles. Parker died of a heart attack at the age of 73 in 1967. In her will, she bequeathed her estate to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. foundation. Following King's death, her estate was passed on to the NAACP. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Great Performances: Big Blonde (1980 | IMDb)
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- This is a short work containing three short stories:
Big blonde
The sexes
Dusk before firework
Please do not combine it with any longer collection.
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